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Friday, September 10, 2010

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Close up of the NGC 7000, the "North America" nebula.


Image is composed from O-III and H-a narrowband channels to a bi-color image.


This palette is close to a visiblel spectrum.





Last night we had about three hours of astronomical darkness, up here 65N.


I'll shoot more H-alpha and the S-III channel later.







An experimental starless version to show the actual nebula





Processing work flow: 


Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07. 


Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack. 


Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations. 


Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.





Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5 


Camera, QHY9 Guiding, SXV-AO @ 6Hz 


Image Scale, 0,75 arcseconds/pixel 


Exposures H-alpha 7x1200s, binned 1x1


O-III 1x1200s binned 3x3





Notes.

I had some problems with the camera orthogonality. Due that, stars at to and bottom are stretched.

I'll re shoot this material again after I have fixed the problem. 






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